How Come People On here Make fun of Certain firms?

Just students. Ones you are Analyst you don’t care anymore

Insecurity

This is an industry that thrives on rent-seeking and eating the biggest slice of the pie. It's always nice to reassure yourself that others are getting smaller slices than you.

I think that, as others have said, it is mainly the result of boredom. And, you know, rankings have never been the focus of our greatest minds I'm sure.

However (ignoring any criticism of any particular firm), I think this is worthwhile for one and only one reason: in finance (or any other old and established industry) you see stagnating giants and this is clearly because a) the company is already big enough that it will just make money by existing b) the people who are left are just babies who never achieved anything of value in their life so now they have no idea how to keep growing the firm (i.e. how to make it a true BB) and are now just glorified paper pushers doing essentially nothing of value and living off the glory of the previous generations who actually grew the business

I think we should mock stagnating giants. It points to a culture of mediocrity and ineptitude. I'm not talking about any particular bank here of course.

Well, in the case of Tobin and Co. it's warranted.

I think there's a degree of self-selection among people choosing to pursue the IB -- there's generally a big focus on getting onto the best "path," with "best" being driven largely by the names on your resume. We spend a LOT of time on here talking about which target schools to go to, and then which top BB / EB to get a job at, and then which MF to exit to, and then which MBA business schools">M7 business school to attend. The problem with focusing on things like these is that you end up deriving a lot of your self-worth from the names on your resume rather than your experience at those places, so people with "good" names tend to look down upon those with "bad" names in order to justify the fact that they're actually miserable in their job

Same reason people make fun of certain sports teams, colleges, or even other people (classmates, colleagues, friends).

Maybe it's insecurity. Maybe it's boredom. Maybe DB sucks. Maybe it's just trolling. It's been happening on WSO since its inception, you just learn to tune it out over time.

It's human nature to some extent. * FO vs. BO * MBB versus "Tier 2" consulting firms * "Big 4" vs. other accounting firms and even then, D vs. EY vs. PwC vs. KPMG memes * Military branch rivalries: Marines "eating crayons" vs. "Chair Force," lower PT requirements in certain forces, lower ASVAB requirements in others * "FAANG" "MAFAANG" or whatever the acronym is now

I think that much of the mocking comes from others pushing too strongly in the other direction. As a member of this form for around a year, I've seen more shitting on IU and RBC in the past week than I have for months at a time. This is happening because people in a shitty situation still have a chip on their shoulder and want to believe that they are at the next Goldman Sachs. However, everyone sees right through it because nobody would actually choose IU Kelley over even the lowest semi-target.

Because they're nerds with an inferiority complex the size of Jupiter that needs their egos to be stroked.

Like, who cares? If you're a rockstar junior banker/trader/analyst/sales you'll succeed and thrive anywhere (obviously within reasonable bounds e.g. bulge bracket)